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Psychiatry in former East and West Germany since reunification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Manfred Bauer
Manfred Bauer*
Affiliation:
Städtische Kliniken Offenbach, Psychiatrische Klinik, Starkenburgring 66, 63069 Offenbach, Germany
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Discussion of the need to reform psychiatric services in former West Germany started relatively late. It was only in the late 1960s, when the government changed from the conservative Christian Democrats to a coalition of the Social Democratic and Liberal Parties, that psychiatry became a public issue for the first time since World War II. Parliament appointed an expert commission, which after four years gave a comprehensive report in which the inadequate care of mentally ill patients was criticised.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 637 - 639
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